Collie River Valley Little Athletics Centre has received a $3200 grant from Coles to buy a new line marker thanks to funds raised through the sale of Coles' Community Chiller Bags.
Collie River Valley Little Athletics' president Brian Kippin said the grant would make a significant difference to the centre, which needed new equipment to continually provide a high quality and safe weekly experience for its young athletes.
"The new line marker will reduce the amount of time needed to mark out our lines each week and having clear lines will improve the safety of our athletes, especially around the throwing events," Mr Kippin said.
Coles state general manager Pat Zanetti said Coles was delighted to provide grants to help the Little Athletics centres in locations such as Collie.
"The Collie River Valley Little Athletics Centre told us they would like to receive a grant to buy a line marking machine and we were delighted to help because we know this is an essential part of Little Athletics to support young budding athletes and parent volunteers," Mr Zanetti said.
Collie River Valley Little Athletics results
This week we ran two competitions due to the weather last Friday being undesirable.
Results for Program 3 on November 6 are as follows.
Thirty-six athletes competed, breaking 10 records and setting 131 personal bests; records as follows:
U8 Stella Collins: 700m walk in a time of 6:14:15s;
U8 Flynn Darnell: 700m walk in a time of 5:08:14s;
U9 Devon Lackworthy-Darke: 700m walk in a time of 5:07:49s;
U10 Xavier Stewart: turbo javelin with a throw of 15m and 1100m walk in a time of 7:36:20s;
U12 Gemma Buckle: Shot put 2kg with a throw of 9.80m and 1500m walk in a time of 10:33:94s;
U12 Logan Gregory: 1500m walk in a time of 8:51:85s;
U14 An-ne Pelser: Shot put 3kg with a throw of 9.51m;
U14 Noah Carter: 1500m walk in a time of 10:47:19s.
November 8, Program 1:
As each athlete has now set PBs in all events and they attempt each week and the events again they now have to work on beating their own personal bests.
Twenty-nine athletes competed breaking three records and setting 69 new PBs, records as follows:
U10 Xavier Stewart: 800m in a time of 2:59:91s;
U12 Noah Stewart: 1500m in a time of 5:58:01s;
U14 An-ne Pelser: Discus 1kg with a throw of 27.13m.
A special mention to the following athletes who also broke four PBs out of either four or five events: U9 Lucas Stewart; U12 Jesse Munday; and U15 Brady Becker.
